(From Du Niang) Plot introduction: In an unexpected car accident, Sarah's husband Paul and daughter Jesse were pierced to death by sharp steel pipes flying over from a truck. Although Sarah survived by chance, she never recovered. A year later, in order to get Sarah back on track, her five friends who like outdoor adventures, all in their early 20s, decided to invite her to participate in the annual outdoor adventure. This time, the destination is located in the United States. The Braehan Caves in Chatuga National Park in the Appalachian Mountains. They entered the cave. Sarah was stuck when entering a narrow cave, and then the cave collapsed, blocking the circuit. They had to move forward, and Juno also confessed to everyone that this was not the Bolehan Caves, but a new cave that no one had discovered. They continued to walk forward, only to find animal bones everywhere, and strange sounds could be heard in the distance. Holly broke her leg accidentally while looking for an exit. She was lifted up by everyone to move on. At this time, the ancient humanoid monsters hidden in the cave appeared, and they suddenly squeezed Holly's head off. Amid the screams, the other five ran away in a hurry. Juno behaved very bravely, she wrestled with those monsters. But she accidentally killed her companion Beth. She didn't care about Beth who was stabbed in the neck, but continued to look for the team. Juno found Rebecca and Sam. In fact, they could have escaped because Juno found the sign of the cave going out. However, Juno insisted on finding Sarah before leaving. Sarah found Beth dying in the cave. Beth told Sarah before she died that Juno had an affair with Paul and that she herself was killed by Juno. The interweaving of new hatred and old hatred made Sara annoyed. Later, Sarah found Juno, but Rebecca and Sam were killed by the monsters. When Sarah and Juno wrestled with the group of monsters, Sarah stabbed Juno's leg, and Sarah left Juno to the rest of the monsters. But she herself fell into the pit in panic. When Sarah woke up, she found a sloping passage full of bones, and the passage could see the sun. She climbed up frantically, escaped the cave, drove all the way down the mountain, saw the container truck carrying timber, and was shocked to see Juno’s ghost. It turned out that this was just Sarah's dream. Sarah was not rescued but was still in the cave. Sarah’s heart fell into a dark cave. She dreamed of seeing her dead daughter and birthday cake. She smiled knowingly and forgot her fear. She was immersed in the happy memories of her daughter. Numerous hungry monsters were crawling towards her from all directions. Come, the roar is endless. The characters of the six determine their different destinies-Beth is full of reason The tenderness of sex makes her calmer in a dangerous environment. At the same time, she is the kindest person. Facing Juno and Paul behind Sarah’s secret affair, she didn’t want Sarah to be hurt and didn’t expose her; she always cared about Sarah and even saved Sarah’s life; During Holly's tragic death and Juno's fight against the monster, everyone else ran away, but Beth dared to go back to help Juno after the initial panic. As a result, the most fatal mistake of the film happened here. Juno, who had just gone through a fierce battle, injured Beth by mistake, and abandoned Beth because of self-blame and evasiveness. It is conceivable that good intentions are not rewarded, and Beth is desperate in the face of severe physical pain and more serious mental injuries. This made her later convey a strong source of hatred to Sarah: Juno is not worthy of trust. Juno not only hurts and abandons his companions in desperate situations, but also betrayed Sarah and her husband, Paul, who secretly communicated with each other. Sarah's revenge swelled rapidly. As one of Sarah's two best friends, Juno has completely different personalities. Juno is stubborn and bold, aggressive, with a wild and adventurous atmosphere, and a strong sense of love. Juno really took care of Sarah, perhaps because she had an affair with Sarah's husband, or because she indirectly harmed Sarah’s family, so she felt guilty and wanted to make up for something, more likely because the relationship between them was so beautiful. Friendship, so in desperate situation, Juno never gave up Sarah. Juno is the bravest and eloquent one of several girls. In order to prevent Holly’s body from being destroyed by mutants, she dared to fight monsters. She killed the most cannibals, looked for lost partners everywhere, and rescued Rui. Sisters Bekaa. Juno's aggressiveness is also reflected in the film. For example, in order to seek excitement, he coaxed everyone into a dangerous unknown cave and insisted on climbing over the cliff with his bare hands. As a result, he nearly fell to death and injured Rebecca's palm. The most deadly thing is that when Juno was condemned by her conscience, she always instinctively escaped. When Sarah’s family broke down a year ago, she could not face the tragedy indirectly caused by herself, and soon left Sarah. A year later In the cave, Beth was seriously injured. She also couldn't face the reality, so she chose to escape. Although it was an accidental injury with a wrong hand, objectively, for Beth, Juno's approach was extremely cruel. Choosing to escape when he blames himself is the internal cause of Juno's later tragedy. As the heroine of the film, Sarah has always carried a deep psychological shadow. Her beloved daughter and husband were brutally pierced to death by her side, and her life fell into darkness for a moment. Sarah was afraid of the darkness, and she couldn't get rid of the influence of past tragedies for a year. She suffered from insomnia and nightmares, and faced the darkness with great psychological depression, which caused claustrophobia when she passed through the narrow cave. Phobia. Originally, at the invitation of Juno, Sarah hoped to improve her mentality through cave adventures, but in fact it backfired. When she was in desperation, Sarah not only failed to appreciate the warmth of her friends, but faced a lot of cruel facts: Zhu Nuo and her husband had already betrayed themselves; Juno seriously injured Beth and abandoned her, but in the end he had to bear the despair of ending Beth’s pain and killing her by himself; fighting with monsters, the thrill of life and death, blood Stimulus with pain. All these caused Sarah’s humanity to disappear rapidly, and the various dark psychology dominated by killing expanded sharply. The darkness really invaded her heart, turning her mentality from grief and fear to crazy revenge. At this time, she, even Even more terrifying than cannibals. At the end of the film, Sarah sees her daughter in her hallucinations with a little warmth, which may be the last remaining humanity. So, taking Beth's miserable ending as a turning point, Juno's sincere defense of Sarah, in exchange for Sarah's hatred of Juno's revenge, formed the biggest human tragedy in the film. Holly is a girl who pursues excitement and loves extreme sports, but when she is truly in desperation, Holly is the first person to collapse and die. Holly's stimulus is just an appearance, she has not really encountered a life-threatening situation, Holly does not cherish life enough. So in the desperate situation, Holly's mentality was the first to lose control. She was on the verge of collapse and mistakenly recognized the phosphorescence of the rock as sunlight. Anxiety and aggressiveness caused Holly to break her leg and eventually made her the weakest of the six. One was killed by a monster. Holly's tragedy lies in her frivolity with life. The sisters Rebecca and Sam are selfish to others, and selfless to each other. When the crisis happened, the two abandoned their companions and ran away. When Juno called them to worry about them, the two felt that as long as the monsters were attracted by Juno and could not come to find themselves, even though Juno caused everyone to be like this, but This kind of mentality is also a bit cool after all. There is a deep friendship between the two of them. Rebecca is mature and older. She takes care and protects Sam in every way to minimize her exposure to danger. Rebecca is gentle, and Sam’s character, who is a medical student, has a kind of personality. Fiercely. Different personalities lead to different endings. Sam finally broke out in desperate situation, seriously wounding a monster, and was cut to death. Rebecca weakly became food in the monster’s mouth, and was eaten alive by the monster. ate. It is a pity for this pair of sisters. If they could use their sisterly love to unite with their peers earlier, they might not have such a miserable ending. Regarding the ending of the film-the ending of the film, most people think that Sarah failed to escape the underground cave in the end, but died in it. She fled before. The experiences she went out were all hallucinations in her coma. In the end, the depression in the underground cave she experienced, the fear of monsters coming from all directions, was the real situation, which made the ending of the film extremely desperate. Because the film did not show too much hope of humanity, it seems to alert people through strong dark elements, how terrible it is to lose humanity in desperate situations. However, it would be better to understand the ending of the film as an open ending. In fact, the point is not whether Sarah escaped from the cave, but that her mind has been completely invaded by the darkness of the depraved human nature in the cave. After experiencing all kinds of betrayal and pain, even if she escapes from the cave, she will never be able to. Faced with the shadow of killing Beth with her own hands, she couldn't face her extremely cruel crime of killing Juno. Therefore, no matter whether her body escaped from the cave or not, her mind was destined to live in the cave, dark. The difference between escaping the cave and not escaping lies in whether the body will be destroyed. In terms of spirit, it should be said that Sarah’s performance after exiting the cave can be seen, although her spirit in the cave is extremely excited and extremely cruel. But after returning to the real world, she gradually weakened, returning to the world slowly awakened her humanity, but the dark facts that happened in the cave enveloped her heart, and she couldn't get out of the cave, and she couldn't get rid of her own. Demon. Therefore, even if the ending of the film is understood to be that the illusion of Juno’s ghost causes Sarah to collapse and then falls into a coma, the following cave plot means that her mind will never be free from the influence of the cave experience, and will always be closed in the dark and suppressed underground. In the cave, it's not impossible, not to mention the episode of the daughter and the birthday cake, every time she appeared in the hallucinations after Sarah was in a coma, so it is Sarah's hallucinations to return to the cave, and this possibility also exists. True or false, life and death, when these issues become confusing in a horror movie, it is the success of a movie, and the meaning of the open ending is here. It can give people different endings and trigger different ones. Thinking, is it desperate for both body and mind, or just for the soul? Is it the body and soul that died in the cave, or the soul itself? Different people watching movies may get different answers. Regarding the monsters in the movie, they not only hunted in the cave, they also hunted out of the cave. In the movie, Beth said that when she interpreted the mural on the rock, the monster hunted outside and brought it back into the cave. In the pile of broken corpses, La also found the carcass of a canine that had just died (it should have been brought back after hunting wolves in the forest). Monsters lose sight, but their hearing is extremely advanced, and they can even use sound waves to distinguish their directions like bats. Also Sarah to Juno The revenge is for Beth's more elements, and Juno robbed her husband of selfishness only a small part. It can be seen from the way she chose to retaliate, she abandoned Juno in the same way that Juno abandoned Beth. If Sarah is avenging herself, she can go out of the cave with Juno, and then find a chance to kill Juno, but if it is such a plot, although it is very depressing and desperate, it still makes people see the bloody human nature. Mutations.
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